Word: herds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current job is curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism at Harvard. There he rides herd on eager reporters who come to steep themselves in history, literature, sociology and talk with visiting pundits. This job took more time than Poet MacLeish bargained for. But unless he should make a laureateship out of the librarianship, his new job will take hours longer beyond reckoning. Poet MacLeish accepted it because, he said, it is one of those posts which "no man has a right to refuse." That he will skimp it, let technicians do all the dirty work, can be suspected...
...Herd, und kein Brand...
...Schwarze Korps (SS newspaper) expressed horror that ten out of 17 graduates of a school in Westphalia planned to study theology. The paper complained of parents who "drive their children like a herd of sheep to the spiritual slaughterhouse of the clergy and thus, only by this 'sacrifice' that doesn't hurt them at all, try to secure a place in heaven at the expense of other people...
...Ettie Rheiner, his secretary ever since). Demons to him, as a Texas millionaire, are the multimillionaires of Wall Street. He is a Uvalde, Tex. banker tried & true (with mortgages on half the town) and therefore suspicious of larger operators. He has been credited with the world's largest herd of goats on his 23,000-acre ranch. He has recently built with his own money 25 houses for about $2,000 each in Uvalde, the like of which cost FHA one-third more. He is making better than 10% on this operation. "If. everyone spent his money like Jack...
...provinces* which found that, out of a total of 796 counties, 489 are devoid of Japanese troops and another 248 are, for practical purposes and with the exception of big cities, in Chinese hands. Altogether 92% of these counties are scarcely more occupied than a prairie across which a herd of buffalo has tramped; the Chinese, like prairie gophers, almost always pop up in charge again...